300 sec min delay between postings !!!!
 

This is completely ridiculous.

The normal mode of using this forum, for anybody other than very sad anoraks, is to login, post a few replies/comments, and then get out and get back to work.

In any case, the server logs me out after a few minutes.

Tell me about. It's a bit of a conversation killer!!

Says he who has a 2.93 posts per day average ! :}

Have you emailed the admin here to get it reduced at all?

I'd imagine the 300 second thing is there to prevent spammers from posting hundreds of messages all over the boards.

Probably right but it's still bloody irritating!

Agree.

Would have posted sooner but.............

:sad:

Then it would appear that the software should be changed, so that after your FIRST attempt to post within 300 seconds it then resets the clock to 300 every time you post.......then you won't get some idiot blocking the server by making at least seven stupid attempts to post a message when they know it will be rejected.

I was trying to WORK on here this morning, and sometimes got the message "Server too busy. Try later" - possibly caused by somebody with a failed sense of humour trying to post seven times within the 300 seconds.

Maybe, just maybe, the 300 second rule has been generated by posters like you!!

Keygrip,

I think the failure of humour is yours.

To make out that you could not 'work' on here cause someone hit the 'submit' button 7 times in 5 minutes is a laugh.

To have a 5 minute time out between postings is excessive, narks people off and stops the flow of postings on a thread with people being delayed in posting so that posts come onto a thread out of time order.

Ultimately this is not my trainset so the powers that are and their underlings can decide whatever they jolly well wish, but I don't come on here for some gratuituous flak from you.

Maybe it would have been better if you'd made the effort to explain why this time out has to 5 mins so that we, the great unwashed can understand what this is all about. In a similar vein as Danny explaining why there are now probationary periods for new members.

Is it just this forum or all of them? Whyt has it been done.

Teh worst possible thing for forum that charges advertisers based on the number of people who visit it is to cut down the number of visits.

The reason people visit the forums is to view and post, if they cnt post they won't bother coming back and the forums will become stale.

30 seconds would have been more reasonable.

Well thats me done for another five minutes..... Better head of to Flyer.

Then the system needs upgrading.

Frankly, although Pprune is provided to us for free, there is a finacial interest in us visiting here, advertisers wouldn't advertise if there were no visitors! Prehaps this is a ploy to get us to click through some of the ads while we are waiting? Trouble is it back fires and in the 5 minute gap we booger off somewhere else.....

Many people visit this forum in breaks from work or whatever, look at the threads and post off a few replies. If we have to wait for 5 minutes between posts then this will end......

Oh well, only 300 seconds to go......

I agree.

300 seconds between posts is way too long.

Has the probationary membership not solved any problem with spammers?

If not, then perhaps Pprune needs more moderators rather than less frequent users :rolleyes:

Keygrip,

You well know that Flying Dutch is one of the most respected members of this community, who contributes enormously to what happens here, both on the Private Flying forum and elsewhere, such as the Medical forum, through his specialist knowledge as a GP and FAA AME. The community is pprune. Without the community, there is nothing here. I speak as someone who founded and ran another respected community site for a number of years, the Motley Fool UK.

This kind of abuse is childish and petulant, does nothing for your own reputation and nothing to enhance the goodwill on pprune.

I think you should apologise to him and work instead to get this silly rule lifted for regular, loyal users at the very least.

QDM

Beat me to it; because ............

I see the rule caught bose-x out.

Pretty impressive stuff, would be silly to ignore advice of that nature.

Anyone PM'd Danny? No? :ooh:

Having just fallen foul of this stupid piece automation I have patiently waited, and waited and waited - so I could complain.

If this persists my modest posting rate will become zero - as will my visits. If you want to flog advertising it will be interesting to see how long you can do it with falling numbers of posters and hence visitors.

I visit UKGA maybe once a week - if the posters dry up here I'll probably fall into a similar 'weekly check' of Pprune.

It's a shame such short sighted judgement appears to be being exercised by 'the management'

Fear not, this is actively being discussed by the Mods and Admins.

FWIW I agree with all of you that 5 minutes is an inappropriate length of time between posts that does not reflect how a large number of members utilise the forums, and the actions of a minority (e.g. in treating JB as a "chatroom") should not detract from the experience of the majority by imposing OTT restrictions.

I hasten to add this is purely my opinion and does not necessarily reflect the views of any other mods or admins.

SD

Guys and Girls, I can assure you that steps are being taken to sort this problem out. It is bloody annoying for us mods too and I can only appologise for the frustration caused at the moment. As I say, the sitution is being looked at behind the scenes here and hopefully normal service should be resumed shortly!



(As an aside though, how would you suggest dealing with people who post drivel on almost every thread every day?(Not in this forum by the way.....)

I ask out of curiosity really- I know how you all feel about this but how can we get around this avoiding the dreaded 300 second thing.....?)

:)

BRL, how about removing/reducing the 300 second wait for those who have paid some money to PPRuNe?